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Karina's Enchiladas Win the Whole Foods Budget Recipe Challenge

I am very excited to announce that my recipe for Sweet Potato Black Bean Enchiladas has won the Whole Foods Market Budget Recipe Challenge. A hearty thank you to all who voted for the recipe- and highlighted this gluten-free vegetarian entry.

I am overwhelmed by the support. Over 1,300 of you took the time to vote! And I appreciate it with all my heart.

Congrats on your win! I can't wait to try this recipe! I found your blog through your winning announcement on the Whole Foods blog...I'll be adding you to my reader asap! Thanks for sharing all your hard work!~Lana B~

Congratulations! Its great to see gluten-free win and become a bit more mainstream. I personally cannot wait to try this recipe (live in a dorm so cooking in the communal kitchen is not really an option...too many crumbs floating around) but I will certainly make it as soon as possible.Love the other recipes i have tried here!

Congrats! You are a fabulous chef. This recipe was great and so are your others. You have been a life saver to a new GF/dairy/soy/corn intolerant gal. Keep up the great work, words, and sense of humor. It all gives me encouragement each day.Barbara

Congrats! It's so great that gluten free and celiac is being publicized and the more awareness we get, the better everyone is for!!!! It is also nice to show the world that gluten free doesn't have to taste disgusting!!

Congratulations! I read and voted for your recipe and made a note that I wanted to try it. I haven't had enchiladas since I went GF. Tonight a friend called who is having us for dinner and she was telling me about this cool sweet potato and black bean recipe she found on the WF site and that maybe she could make it when we come to dinner. I'm excited to try it next week!

Go Gluten Free and Go Sparky! I had a stuffed mountain goat named Moses once and he was a bit dusty so I threw him in the wash and his long "fur" shrunk and now he is a big horned sheep. I still feel guilty.

Congratulations! I can't wait to try this recipe - it looks so yummy! I have loved all of your recipes that I have tried so far (as does my non GF co-worker - I bring her samples). :-) I would have never thought to pair black beans with sweet potatoes - but reading the recipe - it sounds like a wonderful combination.

I can't believe healthy and gluten-free can be so delicious! As a Mexican-American, I have been mostly disappointed in healthy versions of the food I grew up with, but I am discovering some wonderful alternatives here on your blog...followed the link from your win at Whole Foods, congratulations!

Very happy for you. I've been trying to accept the fact that wheat and dairy give me really bad random headaches and sugar isn't a whole lot nicer to me. I wish it was digestive or happened all the time. Then I might not be so tempted to cheat. Your recipes help though!

That is terrific! I am going to make the banana snack cake tonight. Also, wondering if you have ever used hemp milk for a cream based sauce? Hankering chicken ala king... Many thanks for all of your advice and recipes, I couln't do GFCF with out YOU

I am so happy for you! I can't thank you enough for all your advice and help. I am newly diagnosed with Celiac Disease and am blessed to have found your site and email. Many thanks and congratulations!!

I am so excited to try this recipe. As a grad student with a gluten allergy living on a budget, this is the perfect recipe for me! Thank you so much for creating it and this wonderful website. It has been incredibly helpful.

I was so excited when I saw this on the Whole Foods website. My boyfriend is vegetarian. Between my celiac & other food allergies and his being vegetarian we have a hard time coming up with a whole meal that satisfies us both. I haven't had a chance to try this yet, but I'm looking forward to with enthusiasm. Of course I voted for this and I'm so glad you won. Thanks for bringing awareness to celiac and the fact that gluten free food can taste as amazing as gluten containing food.

Hi Karina, this is my first time posting (nothing like a possibility of a gift certificate as positive motivation...) - I've tried a bunch of your recipes and really enjoyed them. And I voted for you in the Whole Foods contest because of that. So, whether I get picked in your giveaway or not, the most important part of this comment is to say CONGRATULATIONS to you. You really deserve it.

Congrats on the win! Although I am not celiac, I still enjoy reading your column. We really enjoy your two potato salad with sweet potatoes recipe as well as the Mediterranean Eggplant with crumbled beef.Helen from Ohio

I actually saw your recipe and voted on the Whole Foods site without ever having read your blog. In the two weeks following I was tested for possibly causes of some osteopenia at only 30 years old and came back for gluten-intolerance. How prophetic! LOL!

Now, I am pouring over your website and already made your Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars and Sour Cream Chicken Enchiladas. They were both awesome! Thank you so much for your blog! It's been a lifesaver!

Congrats Karina! This dish is on my menu this week and I can’t wait to try it. I’ve heard so many great reports. It is very cool that you won. I’m excited for you. Keep those great recipes coming. My family is loving it.

Woohoo!!!!! Hearty Congratulations, Karina!! I am so excited for you & I have been rooting for you!! I started entering gf recipes in contests just last year and although i have yet to even make it into the running, I'm SUPER excited that you are getting the recognition that you so rightly deserve for your incredible food!! Here's hoping we see more and more gluten free recipes in contests!!

That's awesome! I had just checked the WF website the other day to see if they had announced that YOU were the winner yet.

This recipe is awesome - I made it down here in Albuquerque for our midwestern visitors that were in town for the balloon fiesta - it was awesome! And they liked the yummy NM green chile too. We had some of the filling leftover and started eating it with corn chips while we were waiting on the oven and that was good too!

Karina,Congratulations on your win! The recipe sounds great and is now in my pile of recipes to try. I haven't cooked with arrowroot starch before - in fact I don't think I've ever seen it in the store - where do you pick it up and do you think there is a more available substitute?Jenn

Congratulations, Karina! I'm so glad that your recipe won, and I can't wait to try this recipe very soon. I love your blog and have tried several of your recipes so far, and they've all been wonderful. I can't wait to try more of them!

Congrats on the win. I am very happy to have found this site with your recipes. My sister and her family have just been put on gluten free diets so she is going to love this when I refer her to your recipes. I can't wait to try these enchiladas myself. Great Work!!!!

this is my first week on a wheat-free diet, and i have been SO happy with this site. so happy that i've been looking at yummy recipes and not working all week... oops :) this is my first post and i just want to express how grateful i am for it! wheat free does NOT equal boring.

I have been an avid reader of your site since stumbling upon the link during my countless hours of Google research.

All I can say is THANK YOU.

I was diagnosed with food allergies (corn, wheat, barley, rye, oats, tuna, pork, hazelnuts - phew!) in August of '07. After a few months of plain veggies, protein and brown rice, I knew there had to be a better way. I found you in the nick of time.

For your recipe, could you recommend any substitutions for the beans? (I know that somewhat defeats the purpose of the recipe, but I don't tolerate members of the bean family really well.)

Karina,Congratulations on this well-deserved win! I made your enchiladas the night they first appeared, and everyone in my family loved them. I love your blog because the posts are so filled with Life and provide inspiration for exquisitely beautiful, hopeful, healthful food! Thank you!Elizabeth

Congratulations, Karina! And here you are, being generous as ever! I especially like your recipes because I am able to use them here in Belgium--we have fantastic organic stores and I can always find the ingredients you list there, if not at the grocery store. Thanks for all you do on your super blog!

Congratulations, Karina! It's a victory for all Celiac and gluten sensitive folks. What a fabulous way to raise awareness for gluten free living! I look forward to more recipes.

As I stated in my comment on the Whole Foods blog, your recipes have cut my grocery bill by about 25-30%; the proof is in my wallet! I make at least one of your recipes each week, many of them already incorporated into the regular routine at the request of my non-gluten free husband. Way to go!

Congratulations to you!(...And all the finalists, they were all so delicious.)This was my favourite hands down. Affordable and quick AND I know my kids will eat it! That's a winner of a recipe in this house.

Congratulations hun! You really deserve it. Anybody who shops at Whole Foods out of necessity knows that it can get spendy. So anybody who can come up with cost effective gluten free meals is my personal hero lol. Thanks again for the recipes!

I can't wait to try this recipe and I've decided to make it for dinner on Halloween! It looks really good and I have been wanting to learn to do green sauce from scratch. Thanks for being GF, vegetarian, healthy and inexpensive!

That is awesome that you've won, it's nice to see something a little different win! I can't wait to try the recipe, I'm waiting for my biopsy results to find out if this gf diet will be the rest of my life..thanks for all the inspiration! keep it up!! :)

Congratulations on winning an thank you for helping to not only spread awareness of GF free food, but an option to enjoy. I found out less than 2 years ago that I had Celiac Disease and it is so hard to find GF free that tastes good, I love your recipes!!! Your rock! Thanks, JiHan

Congratulations. I love your blog and recipes. You have a great voice. I also love the little comments you throw in about New Mexico. I lived in Northern New Mexico for three years before leaving for the Oregon Coast 20 months ago. I don't miss New Mexico as a whole, but there are little pieces that I do miss a lot. I hope you're able to make the move you're seeking soon.

Karina,Congratulations! I've been reading your blog and cooking your recipes for two years but didn't ever comment until the Whole Foods recipe contest! Awesome job, and thank you for being there when I learned I needed to cook gluten free and casein free for two of my kids!

Congratulations! I have just recently discovered your blog and I want to thank you for making me feel like I'm not alone in loving food, while being Gluten Intolerant. Thanks a bunch! And again, many congratulations.

Congratulations to you! With a daughter that has allergies to eggs, peanuts, tree nuts, peas, wheat and milk...I have been able to use many of your recipes - thank heavens! It is HARD to maneuver, but you make it easier. Thanks and Congratulations again!!

Of anyone I know, or know of, you deserve this award! All your recipes are fabulous! I love the photography and the fact that I can trust them to be gluten free and some soy and dairy free just makes me want to jump for joy! and Cook!!!

Congratulations! You deserve it, not only for inspiring the GF crowd but our friends as well--your blog is so pretty that my friends have taken to getting recipes off it not only for me but for their own families!

Yaaaaay!!! We are all so proud for you (and happy that we helped - just a bit) How nice that we could help you, given how very much your GF/CF recipes have helped us.

My family is so very thankful to have you in our lives (and kitchen)! You were there last night, tonight, and again tomorrow night. We are so appreciative and concur with your words and thoughts - be they focused on politics, the beauty/harshness of New Mexico, the joy of family and friends, the trials of changed diets, multitudinous Goddess blessings, or just the love of good food!

I have been a fan since the days of your earlier cookbooks, and happened upon your blog after my husband & daughter needed to change their diets. I was overwhelmed. And suddenly, there you were. She works in mysterious ways.

congratulations, karina! that is an awesome recipe and i voted for you..it deserved a win!i love your site..i don't post much but i am 'here' alot and love so many of your recipes...thank you for the site..it is a great boon to those of us on special diets!congrats, again!donna